The Vagabond

January 28, 2026

June 23, 2023

By Danny Crownover The Vagabond has heard stories about how Thomas B. Cooper, a wealthy iron manufacturer and noted legisla...

June 16, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1947, an announcement that the new Gadsden Curb Market at Sixteenth Street and Forrest Avenue would b...

June 9, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden’s first furniture factory was located on the east side of North Fifth Street at the corner of Locu...

June 2, 2023

By Danny Crownover In 1898 there was what was called at that time an epidemic of horse thievery, so frequent and so general as to a...

May 11, 2023

By Danny Crownover The first electrically operated manufacturing plant in Gadsden was a small corn-grinding mill located in...

May 5, 2023

By Danny Crownover In July of 1879, experienced workers arrived in Gadsden from Chattanooga, Tenn., to operate a new sawmill of...

April 20, 2023

By Danny Crownover Charles Centerﬁt Hart posted in the Gadsden High Folks Facebook page about and his hole-in-one experience so...

April 14, 2023

By Danny Crownover Gadsden was part of Cherokee County until Baine County (later renamed Etowah County) was created in 1866 fro...

April 7, 2023

By Danny Crownover Cherokee County was once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the South. During the Civil War, the c...

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